capriciousyetconstant:

Monday, January 16

10am-3pm-Occupy Our Homes Launches City-Wide Effort To Reach Out To Homeowners Facing Foreclosure For Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Location for Meeting points/Training Sessions:

WEST SIDE: 10:00 a.m: 2655 N. Melvina Avenue (a home under foreclosure).
SOUTH SIDE: 10:00 a.m: Sankofa Fight Back Center For Human Rights, 1401 E. 75th Street.
NORTH SIDE: 11:00 a.m: Rogers Park Community House, 7463 N. Ridge Blvd. A coalition of Chicago community groups begin a city-wide canvassing effort targeting homeowners facing foreclosure and the neighborhoods affected.

3:00-4:30pm
Occupy the Dream Action
Location: Jackson/LaSalle in front of the Federal Reserve
Join the Metropolitan Chicago area African-American Faith Community and Trinity UCC to protest fraudulent foreclosures and astronomical student debt. Bus transportation provided at Trinity UCC, 400 W. 95th St (boarding at 1:30pm, departing at 2pm)

4:30pm
Liberate the Southside: Re-occupation of a vacant home
Location: TBA at 3pm Rally.
Following the action at Jackson and LaSalle, we will go directly into the communities hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis and reclaim a boarded up home to give it to a family in need.

(via occupychi)

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